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“... of the London Review of Books, with its editorial opposition to ‘deconstruction’, to mention Michel Foucault, but the first volume of his History of Sexuality has some powerful things to say about the kind of enterprise that Ellis was engaged in. (Ms Grosskurth, in a footnote, calls Foucault’s book ‘a ...”

“... and a celebration of individual as well as collective autonomy. Its best-known politician, Michel Rocard, served as prime minister in the late 1980s, but his presidential ambitions were frustrated by François Mitterrand.Rosanvallon, who was close both to the liberal historian François Furet and to ...”

“... of literary theory, but only a little of that antagonism is evident here. He grapples briefly with Foucault (‘an excitable reader and an even more excitable writer’). There must have been a frisson in the lecture hall when he found in ‘the profundity and vehemence of Hitler’s contempt for humanistic ethics’ a ‘striking resemblance to some recent ...”

“... about the doings of the American empire of the present day. New historicism’s preference for Foucault over Marx, discourse over class and ideology (the latter again criticised here by Catherine Gallagher as a sort of fetish), metaphors of circulation and exchange – ‘social energies’ – over those of cause and effect, and almost anything over ...”

“... satisfaction elsewhere. But nobody really knew, or could suggest ways of finding out. In 1981, Michel Foucault threw a time-bomb into this debate by claiming, in the first volume of his History of Sexuality, that the 19th and 20th centuries had one quality in common which was far more important than any that set them apart. This was the desire to know ...”

“... so what on earth was he referring to? I am gratified that a totally obscure piece I wrote about Michel Foucault, correctly identified by the editor, prompted Feyerabend to say that the proposition that ‘individuals matter less to knowledge than the discourse in which they participate’ is ‘entirely against my grain, absolutely and for ever. The ...”

“... Fitzpatrick and Anne Barron, deserve special attention. Both are heavily indebted to the work of Michel Foucault, who himself had a complex relationship to Post-Modernism. Foucault’s major preoccupation was the manner in which power constitutes the subject, and he was deeply ambiguous as to whether that constitution ...”

“... master have realised they can do medical history without knowing much medicine. Even better, Michel Foucault has seemed to suggest that colonial medicine was not so much a bounty conferred on the least advanced parts of humanity by the more advanced, but a discourse deployed by governing powers to aid them in ruling. These themes strike a particular ...”

“... commonly reduced to a mere secondary ‘effect’ within the text. ‘What is an author?’ asks Michel Foucault. ‘The author function,’ he replies pejoratively, ‘is the result of a complex operation which constructs a certain rational being that we call “author”. Crities doubtless try to give this intelligible being a realistic status by ...”

“... social histories vanished from students’ bags, and were replaced by the more depressing works of Michel Foucault. But social history never went away, and the destruction of its master narratives has probably done the field nothing but good. The framework of class or gender formation was too constraining: freed from it, social historians looked at their ...”

“... gift’ as seen by Marcel Mauss, say, or in the second ‘discursive practice’ according to Michel Foucault), the abstract concept is transformed into a literal space of operations, a pragmatic way of making and showing, talking and being. The prominent practitioners of this art draw on a wide range of precedents: the everyday objects of Nouveau ...”

“... his rancid politics, that lies behind the thought of post-structuralists like Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, as well as shaping the entire postmodern landscape. A lot of postmodern types are Nietzscheans without being aware of it. In Nietzsche, Hegel’s thought meets its nemesis: truth is now a convenient fiction, the unity of the self is an ...”

“... been forgotten.’ With these words, Darmon carefully places himself in the tradition of the late Michel Foucault, his history of madness as well as his more recent, regrettably unfinished history of sexuality. But the book does not live up to the expectations aroused by the beginning. Trial by Impotence deals in turn with the canon lawyers’ categories ...”

“... David Sylvester, who oversaw the catalogue raisonné of the work, felt similarly, and I imagine Michel Foucault did too. In 1968, in the midst of the Magritte revival, Foucault published an extraordinary meditation on his work, focusing on The Treachery of Images, which depicts a large pipe with the cursive caption ...”

“... of meaning, accounts of context – are largely absent. Methodologically, its primary guide is Michel Foucault, whom Crary cites early in the first book: ‘One has to dispense with the constituent subject’ – that is, the notion that the individual is an autonomous agent – in order ‘to arrive at an analysis which can account for the ...”